MABEL ALVAREZ (1891-1985) Italian Girl (Adrienne le Clerc Tytla) 30...

MABEL ALVAREZ (1891-1985)
Italian Girl (Adrienne le Clerc Tytla)
signed 'Alvarez' (upper right)
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in.
Footnotes

Provenance
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco.
Perlmutter Fine Arts, San Francisco.
The Collection of Rhoda and Dr. Marvin Kantor.

Exhibited
Costa Mesa, Orange County Museum of Art, Exhibition: California Progressives, 1910-1930, October 26, 1996-January 12, 1997 (as Italian Model).

The work is recorded in The Mabel Alvarez Estate archives. We wish to thank the Mabel Alvarez Estate Collection for their kind assistance with cataloging the lot.

Adrienne le Clerc was an actress, fashion, and live model working in Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood Animation. In the 1930s, she was an art model and friend to Mabel Alvarez, as well as Disney Animation Studios instructor Donald W. Graham (1903-1976). Adrienne married Disney animator Bill Tytla, who created the character of Dumbo after their son.